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Strong's #4162 - ποίησις
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- a making
- a doing or performing
- in his doing i.e. in the obedience he renders to the law
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ποί-ησις, εως, ἡ,
fabrication, creation, production, opp. πρᾶξις ( action, v. Arist. EN 1140a2, Pol. 1254a5 ), [ μύρου ] Hdt. 3.22; νεῶν Th. 3.2, etc.; ἡ τῶν ζῴων π. Pl. Smp. 197a; ἡ τῶν μελῶν π. Id. Grg. 449d; μίμησις π. τίς ἐστιν, εἰδώλων μέντοι Id. Sph. 265b, etc.; αἱ ὑπὸ πάσαις ταῖς τέχναις ἐργασίαι ποιήσεις εἰσί Id. Smp. 205b .
2. of Poetry, ἡ τῶν διθυράμβων π., τῆς τραγῳδίας, τῶν ἐπῶν, Pherecr. 145.10, Pl. Grg. 502a, 502b, R. 394c: abs., art of poetry, οἱ ἐν π. γενόμενοι Hdt. 2.82, cf. Ar. Ra. 868, etc.; οὕτως . . ἀταλαιπώρως ἡ π. διέκειτο Id. Fr. 254; οἱ ἄκροι τῆς π. ἑκατέρας, i.e. tragedy and comedy, Pl. Tht. 152e; ᾠδαὶ καὶ ἡ ἄλλη π. Id. Phdr. 245a; π. ψιλὴ ἢ ἐν ᾠδῇ ib. 278c . poetic composition, poem, ἐς ποίησιν ἐσενείκασθαι Hdt. 2.23, cf. Th. 1.10, etc.; περὶ ὧν Ὅμηρος τὴν π. πεποίηκεν Pl. Ion 531d: pl., Id. Lg. 829e .
II = εἰσποίησις, adoption, in pl., Is. 7.1, D. 44.7, al.; κατὰ ποίησιν ibid., Michel 836.5 (Didyma, ii B.C. ); ποιήσει υἱοί D.H. 4.7; τῇ παρ' ὑμῶν π. πολίτης D. 20.30 .
2. in collect. sense, those adopted, τῆς π. ἣν ἐκεῖνος ἐποιήσατο Id. 44.61 .
III method of procedure, in Magic, PMag.Par. 1.1248.
ποίησις, ποιήσεως, ἡ (ποιέω);
1. a making (Herodotus 3, 22; Thucydides 3, 2; Plato, Demosthenes, others; the Sept. several times for מַעֲשֶׂה).
2. a doing or performing: ἐν τῇ ποιήσει αὐτοῦ (in his doing, i. e.) in the obedience he renders to the law, James 1:25; add Sir. 19:20 (18).
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ποίησις , -εως , ἡ
(ποιέω ),
[in LXX chiefly for H4639 and cognate forms;]
1. a making (Hdt., Thuc., al.).
2. a doing (Sirach 19:18; Sirach 51:19): James 1:25.†
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An interesting reference to John 5:2 is found in a Christian amulet, P Oxy VIII. 1151.7 (v/A.D. ?), where the invocation runs—ὁ θ (εὸ)ς τῆς προβατικῆς κολυμβήθρας, ἐξελοῦ τὴν δούλην σου Ἰωαννίαν. . . ἀπὸ παντὸς κακοῦ, ";O God of the sheep-pool, deliver from every evil thy servant Joannia.";
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